The Stupid Horror Movie

Rating: 6/10 (23 February 2004)

Thank god I borrowed and did not pay for this ! The beginning is really brilliant ( if not realistic ) and the story might turn out in a very good movie - but it doesn't. It's a zombie movie that can't decide between going serious or turning into a B movie (or a parody of a B movie). The characters are dull and stereotyped, the horror scenes are vaguely nauseous but oh-so-totally fake, the action scenes are copies of scenes we all saw too many times, the story is a nonsense. Everybody is dead and you do not see a corpse all through central London (???), civilization came to a halt and London is cleaner than ever (???), England is all quiet but Manchester is burning (???), infected people survived for 28 days (and some for other 28 days) without starving (???), Jim & friends run away from London and they choose a tunnel full of crashed cars (don't they know the city is full of bridges?)(???), Jim escapes from the soldier's fortress into the deadly infected world and they go out to kill him (???). And the supermarket scene, the horses in the countryside, the happy cottage in the hills - was this meant to be Disney meets the Living Dead ?